American Pickers WERE in Texas

There have been several of us that have been trying to get American Pickers to come to Texas.  We've thought Texas has some of the best stuff & junk that would definately entice the American Pickers to come and shop here.  Well, they WERE in Texas.  As a matter of fact you'll be able to see the episode tomorrow at 8pm on the History Channel. 

Garland Murphree, who has a booth in at the Canton Texas Flea Market each month and you can find him and his daughter Mandie at Marburger Farms Antique Show each Spring and Fall, shared with me this past Thursday that they came to their place and will be on the this episode.  How exciting for them.  Be sure and tune in to see them. 

Also, be sure and check out Marburger's blog.

Winnie & Tulula's Newest Treasures

As you walk into Winnie & Tulula's in Athens Tx, this is the first display you see:

A new work table that Gloria bought in England.  I see so many possibilities for this.

If you look to your right, this display is in one of the front windows:

To your left is this display:

and here's the rest of the store:

Here are more displays throughout the store:

This is Deb of Talking Trash's booth.  If you've never been, this store is filled with amazing displays and things and remember they also have a Bistro and Fresh Flower Market now.  Have a great weekend.

Keeping It REEL

Hello Friends.  I can finally say that my "ordeal" is finally over with. Well at least the hardest part is and now phase of two of it begins.  I'm continuing to keep a positive attitude, I mean do I really have a choice, in my life, the answer is no. I do know that I have God to turn to and I know no matter what is thrown my way in this life, he will most definitely see me through it.  It may not turn out the way I want it to and I may not go toward the path that I thought I should go, but if he's leading me then I know I'm headed the right direction.  I have so many again to thank, words, simple as they may seem...but really thank you so much for standing beside me during what was by far the hardest thing I've gone through.  It was really tough at times and for many that allowed me to lean on you, I am so grateful to you. 

We headed to Canton today and I know it was so so hot and you are probably wondering, what were you thinking, but we still enjoyed it.  Even though there weren't many vendors on the grounds, we were there at the crack of dawn and left really early.  I did get to meet Nancy and Mike.  They are so genuinely sweet.  So nice to meet them, here they are:

Aren't they a cute couple.  They just recently opened a new shop in Wimberly Tx, House Wren, you can find them this Fall at Marburger Farms Antique Show and...they'll be at City Wide Garage Sale in Austin in a few weeks.  Also, be sure and check out their blog, House Wren. 

Speaking of the City Wide Garage Sale, we will be setting up there for the next one as well, which is August 13.  I hope you come out and see us. 

Take a look at a few things I found today:

Loved the "REEL" letters and I know you can't tell but that's a garden statue and flower basket.  We also stopped by to see  Laurie Anna's, Jo's Place in Quinlan and Winnie and Tulula's.  I'll have to do several more posts on these and much more of Canton, but here's a sneak peek of W&T's:

Gloria just got back from a shopping trip to England and she found some awesome treasures.  You still have time to head to Canton this weekend.  Hope you have a great time no matter where you go.

Hello!!

Hello all.  Hope you've been well and having fun this summer.  I'm still allowing God and his peace and the counsel of great friends to lead me in the right direction with my situation.  An angel called me yesterday, no not the kind you would think of like in biblical times, but a great friend that said just the right words to lead me in the right direction.  You know who you are friend and I give you many thanks for your words of wisdom!!  There are so many of you that I can't say thank you enough to that have emailed me such great words of support, or called and said just the right thing or made me laugh when I needed to, or left comments you truly are a great community of friends in this blog world.  I know that there are those of you going through so much more than what I am and just this week I read about a family that lost their daughter, tragic, so young.  If you get a chance go over and visit Vickie's blog.  I'm sure she'd appreciate your words of kindness during this situation.  My ordeal is nothing compared to this.

We spent the weekend in Austin with our oldest son and his girlfriend and a house full of family.  We were there to celebrate Courtney.  She was in a body building contest/beauty pagent and she won first place in her contest and then won first place in overall competition.  I'll show more of this in a later post. 

Of course we headed over to Binky LaFaye's. It always seems like such a quick trip when we visit but there sure was a lot of inspiration going on in Llano Tx.  The middle picture of my header was taken in Binky's shop and the other two were taken at Uncommon Objects in Austin.  I'll also do another post on Binky's and Whimsey's hopefully soon.

Heading back into Austin from Llano, we took a different route and guess where we landed, almost right at the front door of Uncommon Objects.  Do you think I took the opportunity to visit here, of course I did.  My nephews had never been and having heard me speak so much of this place they just had to check it out.  They found a few treasures, I was good and didn't buy one thing, but boy did I soak up the inspirational things that were in this store.  Just super awesome.  I would love to have headed over to the City Wide Garage Sale but we just ran out of time.  I did, however, find Mickie and Brandy's new booth at the Austin Antique Mall and would you believe that my camera battery died before I could take a picture of their booth.  I'm definately going back to this shop, there was so much to see.

Want to see more of Uncommon Objects:

Well head on over to Discarded Forlorn for so much eye candy you're bound to be there a while.

Curious

Still working through my ordeal, but I just had to let you know how much you've all touched me with your love and kindness that you've shown me these past few weeks.  I'm almost to the end of this very stressful situation, actually I'll know on July 26th how things will go.  Please especially on this day, keep me in your prayers.  I've so missed you all.  I'm continuing to be led by God which direction to take, how to handle this, and prayer is the only thing that is keeping me sane these days.

Since I'm not blogging much and visiting you all even less and even though I know I told y'all I wouldn't be posting much this month, I just had to share the Curious Boys booth with you.  Joe and Glenn usually come and see me each time at Warrenton and they are just such a delight to talk to.  When Dixie posted a pic of their Booth, I wanted to show it to you:

(Found Here)

They are located in several shops, but this one was taken at Blue Hills Antiques in Geronimo Tx.  I am sure they have some really awesome things in their booth, because they have such a great eye from the pictures they've shown me.  Maybe this will encourage them to start a blog, hint..hint...

Hopefully, sometime this summer I'll get to see their space.  Please check back soon for an upcoming show that I want to share with you! Thank you again for all your comments, phone calls, and thanks also to Sheila for her awesome gift!!

I'm Featured in Romantic Country Magazine

I am so excited that several of my pictures from The Warrenton Antique Show are featured in the newest issue of Romantic Country Magazine. 

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Tricia of Vintage Bliss had sent me a message that she had seen my booth in this issue.  I had no idea that Anne of Fiona & Twig had submitted several pictures to them of The Round Top/Warrenton Antique Show.  They selected two of my booth and two of Christie's booth.  Christie is located in Sommerfield Place next to Zapp Hall.  This is her first magazine publication and she was really excited to hear this.  Here are the pics of my booth and Christie's that are in the magazine.  These pics were during a previous Fall Show at Zapp Hall:

Here are the two they selected of Christie's booth:

Congrats Christie!!  This definately made my week.  Thanks Tricia for letting me know and Anne for submitting the pics.

July Canton

We went to the Canton Texas Flea Market this past Thursday.  It was so hot that we didn't stay long.  Since I had read that Carol of Raised in Cotton was planning a trip there, I was hoping that I would get the chance to see her before I left.   There weren't many vendors this time and since I knew it was going to be so hot we arrived early.  After I had walked the entire grounds, I was on my way out when I saw Carol and her friends:

This is Christine with Carol (thanks Carol). It was good to see her and meet her shop partners.

We went to Jo's place in Quinlan and found more things with her than we did at Canton.  I always enjoy seeing her.  Our final stop was at Winnie & Tulula's, where I bought a treasure with Margo.

They now have a fresh flower market in the shop:

Now there isn't anything you can't find at this place.

I want to say thank you again for all your kind and sweet emails and comments.  I hope you are having a great 4th of July weekend.

I'm Sharing My Trials

I woke up this morning feeling still really heavy burdened.  I know from my last post I left you probably wondering what the heck was going on, and while I still don't feel it completely necessary to share it all with you, I do feel necessary to share what I am learning.  Just so you know it's NOT my family or my health and for this I'm thankful, it is still a big deal and a BIG situation and a pretty stressful one too.  But since I love to share, you all know that, I felt I would at least share what I am discovering. 

There may not be pictures (and this is hard for me since I'm such a visual person) and there may be days where it's just words, whether a few or a lot, but I feel that by sharing it will be therapeutic probably more so for me and if along the way it is for you too, then I'm thankful for that.

I read Elizabeth's post this morning and it so touched me as many other's I've been reading out there this past week have, like Shelley's blog where she's having to find a new home, her journey and outlook will touch you too.  I know we all go through trials and tribulations and none of us are exempt from this.  Some harder for others, I believe it's where you place your focus, that will determine your outlook.  Will you focus only on the situation?  It's like having a coin directly in front on your eye, that's all you see is the large coin.  But if you will move the coin back a few inches from your eye you'll see your surroundings.  It's the same with the trial you're going through as well.

While sometimes all I can do is focus on the situation, it consumes me.  I can't sleep and my thought process is totally focused on that situation.  But I also know that my God is far bigger than anything I'm going through!!   I do hope by sharing with you that I won't lose anyone that normally comes to my blog to read about the latest adventure, and normally it's a positive one, some place I've been, or shopped, or found but if I do lose you then all I can say is maybe eventually you'll come back and if not then I wish you well on your journey. 

We all know life isn't about the where the next best adventure will be.  Wouldn't it be great if it were just that simple.  Sometimes reality just slaps you harder in the face than you've experienced in a long time.  Yes, we all have our days, good or bad, and you bounce back I'm sure but sometimes in life there comes a point that you might not bounce back as quickly as you did before.  The pressure or situation stays longer than you'd like.  Let me add I'm no expert in giving advice about things, I'm only sharing from my heart.

This is what I've learned this week:

While I've always considered myself a Christian, I am human, I make mistakes, I don't always serve him like I should.  I've learned this week that I am not alone in this situation. I do have people that care about me and my situation and there are those that are going through problems of their own, yes even more difficult ones than the one I'm going through.  I so thank you for your emails, comments, calls, you are the best!!   I also realized, some how I guess I forgot or didn't feel... (I don't know worthy or guilty or whatever word to fill in the blank) that I can still cry out to God, who will listen to me no matter what!!  I've done a lot of crying to the point where my eyes have been swollen a lot.  I don't tell you this for you to say you poor thing, but I think crying sometimes cleanses the soul.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. (Isaiah 48:10)

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivers him out of them all. (Psalm 34:19)


I am so glad I found this website, it has sure lifted my spirits: http://www.harderthanflint.com/2010/09/21/the-furnace-of-affliction/

I'll be doing a post soon to share who I saw yesterday and a great surprise that a friend told me about.  I hope you all have an awesome July 4th weekend!!